Theodore Watts-Dunton
(1832-1914)

poet, novelist, and critic

Died aged c. 82

Theodore Watts-Dunton (12 October 1832 – 6 June 1914), from St Ives, Huntingdonshire, was an English poetry critic with major periodicals, and himself a poet. He is remembered particularly as the friend and minder of Algernon Charles Swinburne, whom he rescued from alcoholism and drug use and persuaded to continue writing.

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Algernon Charles Swinburne 1837-1909 poet and his friend Theodore Watts-Dunton 1832-1914 poet-novelist-critic lived and died here

11 Putney Hill, SW15 Wandsworth, London, United Kingdom where they lived and died (1914)